New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Reprint as at 1 October 2010
| Public Act | 2000 No 48 |
| Date of assent | 14 November 2000 |
| Commencement | see section 2 |
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
This Act is administered by the Ministry of Justice.
5 Act applies to specified indicative referenda
Part 2
Voting paper for postal voting
6 Wording of proposals, responses, and questions
9 Returning Officer may employ or engage persons
10 Chief Registrar of Electors
11 Delegation by Returning Officer or Chief Registrar
12 Provisions applying to delegations
14 Preliminary referendum rolls
15 Form of printed preliminary referendum rolls
16 Section 110 of the Electoral Act 1993 not to apply to printed preliminary referendum rolls
17 Public inspection of printed preliminary referendum rolls
18 Public use of printed preliminary referendum rolls
19 Supply of electoral information under Electoral Act 1993
Referendum roll and supplementary referendum roll
22 Supplementary referendum roll
23 Form of referendum roll and supplementary referendum roll
24 Supply of copy of rolls to Returning Officer
25 Persons who qualify to register as electors after close of roll
26 Persons who, at commencement of voting period, are dead or disqualified or removed from roll
27 Protection of referendum roll and supplementary referendum roll
28 Supply and protection of information used for any official publicity campaign
32 Period for dispatching voting papers
33 Dispatching voting papers by post
34 Dispatching replacement voting papers by post
35 Dispatching voting papers by fax or dictation
36 Envelopes and information accompanying voting papers
Marking and returning voting papers
39 Return of voting papers to Returning Officer
40 Times for return of voting papers
41 Voting papers returned late
Progressive processing of voting papers
42 Processing of voting papers
45 Protection of secrecy during processing
46 Publicity during processing
48 Procedure after close of voting period
49 Declaration of result of referendum
50 Disposal of voting papers and rolls
51 Advertisers to be identified
Part 6
Application for inquiry into conduct of referendum
56 Application to be filed in Wellington High Court
57 Time for making application
58 Application to be sent to Returning Officer
59 Application to be served on respondents
60 Matters to be inquired into at hearing
61 Decision of court as to result of referendum
65 Official publicity campaign
66 Influencing electors generally
69 Bribery by any person at any time
70 Bribery by any person after voting period
71 Bribery by elector before or during voting period
77 Property may be stated as being in Returning Officer
Part 8
Miscellaneous provisions
78 Validation of irregularities
Part 9
Amendments to Citizens Initiated Referenda Act 1993
82 Part to be part of the Citizens Initiated Referenda Act 1993
86 New sections 22 to 22AB substituted
88 New sections 24 to 26C substituted
89 Endorsement and return of the writ
90 New sections 40 and 40AA substituted
91 New Part heading substituted
92 Publicity for indicative referendum
93 Returns in relation to advertisements
94 Duty of Chief Electoral Officer [Repealed]
95 Return to be open for public inspection [Repealed]
97 New headings and sections 48 to 51G substituted
98 New Part heading substituted
100 New section 55 substituted
[Repealed]
